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This book describes recent progress of researches on nanocarbon field electron emitters ranging from fundamental properties to promising applications, e.g., X-ray sources, vacuum electronic devices, space thrusters and so on.
List of contents
1. FEM and FIM of Carbon Nanotubes 2. Electromechanical Self¿Oscillations of Carbon Field Emitters 3. Performance of Point-Typed Carbon Nanotube Field Emitters 4. Theoretical Field-Emission Patterns from Carbon Nanotubes 5. Heat Localization and Thermionic Emission from Carbon Nanotubes 6. Field Emission from the Edges of Single-Layer Graphene 7. FEM and FIM of Graphene 8. Spin-Polarized Field-Emitted Electrons from Graphene Oxide Edges 9. Theoretical Coherent Field Emission of Graphene 10. Influence of Edge Structures of Graphene on Field-Emission Properties 11. Theory of Thermionic Electron Emission for 2D Materials 12. Direct Grown Vertically Full Aligned Carbon Nanotube Electron Emitters for X-Ray and UV Devices 13. Development of CNT X-Ray Technology for Medical and Dental Imaging 14. Graphene Cold Field-Emission Sources for Electron Microscopy Applications 15. CNT Field-Emission Cathode for Space Applications 16. Growth of Long Linear Carbon Chains after Serious Field Emission from a CNT Film 17. Emission of C20 + by Field Evaporation from CNT
About the author
Yahachi Saito is Professor Emeritus at Nagoya University, Japan, and a fellow at Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute, Japan. He has also been a professor at Toyohashi University of Technology and Mie University, Japan, and a visiting scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories. His area of expertise encompasses the synthesis, characterization, and application of nanometer-scale materials, especially inorganic atomic clusters and fine particles, fullerene, CNTs, and graphene. He has studied CNT-field emitters since 1996, collaborating with Noritake Itron Corp. since 1997 for the development of display devices using CNT as a cold cathode. They demonstrated the world's first CNT-based display device at the SID International Conference in 1998.
